Kings of the Hill

It would be remiss of me not to also post this here (it is already on the General Ignorance Blog). We spent today in the blazing sun starting the paint job on our car, The General, for the Sucata Run. I thought I'd try a little time lapse video. It worked pretty well, although my post production skills are slightly lacking. I'll have another go at it when I am less sunburnt.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the East...

Had a play with TinEye today. It was really quite nice. Given that I have so many pictures littered over the internet, could be a very useful tool for finding out what people are using them for (aside from the kind souls that tell me).

I think the range of searching is still quite limited, but I was still able to find lots of my photos being used in places I hadn't seen before. Although I understand the idea behind how it might work, it is still pretty impressive.

Here's a good example. I didn't know that my robin photo had been made into one of those cool chimera things at Human Descent, here it is. I found this with TinEye (well, actually, mainly lots of reposts in Russia by people that stole it and put it on their site). It found it even though the image is quite a bit changed from the original.

And someone at HP seems to really like my fruit because it seems to be in quite a few places. So do Channel 4, in the guise of that odious jobbie woman. Star fruit, who knew. I think I might end up playing with TinEye for hours.

One last thing, I give you this example and ask you, dear reader, to try and work out what on earth this story could be about. Suggested translations of the headline please!

The Time Is Now...

Well, 7 hours from now. At 9pm tonight, Season 2 of Bimbogami will go live. I think it could be a fun night/weekend. We have seen all the puzzlers gathering on the site since we announced the date/time and it looks like they might all jump on tonight to see who can complete first.

Based on last time, I think there is a good chance that one or more people will have completed all 40 puzzles by the end of the weekend. It's a bit like the Olympic 100m final. Months of preparation and it's over in a flash. Except that people will still be joining and playing for months to come. So, in that sense, it's nothing like the Olympics at all. Good. Glad I cleared that up.

So, come along, join in the fun, I promise you you will at least get the first puzzle...